Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Where do human rights come from?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't want to belabour you with a lecture on international human rights law, but just very quickly, most of the modern conceptions of human rights come from the post-World War II era. The idea was that the atrocities from the war, from previous actions even, culminated in a glo

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  One thing I'd really like to clarify is that self-determination is a right that's held by peoples. The Canadian people hold the right to self-determination. Canada, as a state, is the manifestation of that. With indigenous peoples, you might say that indigenous peoples have very

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, and to draw an example that's out of the context of Inuit, it even extends into ensuring funding equities, so there are not necessarily disparities between how Inuit are funded and how other Canadians are funded. I would think this is the case and I think you get that out of

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think it would require more remedial measures than are currently found in the bill. I only say that because there really wasn't very much of an implementation policy at the time that particular case was brought forward. One was developed as a result of it, but in order to avoid

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As a threshold matter, it's important to note that the declaration is not just some statement that somebody promulgated at the United Nations in a GA resolution. It actually is a clean articulation of several standards of customary international law. Through the Canadian Constitu